“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
1 Peter 2:16 - English Standard Version 2016 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Live] as free people, [yet] without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but [live at all times] as servants of God. American Standard Version (1901) as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. Common English Bible Do this as God’s slaves, and yet also as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil. Catholic Public Domain Version in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God. |
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.